Pitch Perfect 2 (2015)
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Critic Consensus: Pitch Perfect 2 sings in sweet comedic harmony, even if it doesn't hit quite as many high notes as its predecessor.
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Cast
as Beca Mitchell
as Patricia "Fat Amy"
as Chloe Beale
as Emily Junk-Hardon
as Katherine Junk
as Jesse
as Benjamin "Benji" Applebaum
as Aubrey Posen
as Bumper Allen
as Stacie Conrad
as Lilly Onakurama
as Cynthia-Rose Adams
as Florencia "Flo" Fuentes
as Kommissar
as Pieter Krämer
as Jessica
as Ashley
as Tone Hanger
as Tone Hanger
as Tone Hanger
as John Hodgman
as John Smith
as Gail Abernathy-McKadden-Feinberg
as himself.
as the Riff-Off Host
as Beca's
as Dax
as NLF Player (Green Bay Packers)
as Himself
as Himself
as Himself
as Himself
as Himself
as Barden University Dean
as Barden University Secretary
as the Barden Orientation
as Heat Residual Intern
as Newscaster Connie
as Today Show
as The Lead Host
as News Station Anchor Lisa Richards
as Outrage 24/7 Newscaster Todd Derek
as Outrage 24/7 Newscaster Todd Derek
as Morning Joe Host
as Morning Joe Host
as Jimmy Kimmel Live Host
as Nicole Wallace
as The View Host
as The View Host
as The Voice Judge
as The Voice Judge
as The Voice Judge
as Christina Aguilera
as Treblemaker
as Treblemaker
as Treblemaker
as Treblemaker
as Treblemaker
as Treblemaker
as Treblemaker
as Das Sound Machine
as Das Sound Machine
as Das Sound Machine
as Das Sound Machine
as Das Sound Machine
as Das Sound Machine
as Das Sound Machine
as Das Sound Machine
as Das Sound Machine
as Das Sound Machine
as Das Sound Machine
as Das Sound Machine
as Das Sound Machine
as Das Sound Machine
as Das Sound Machine
as Das Sound Machine
as Da Sound Machine
as Team Canada
as Pentatonix
as Pentatonix
as Pentatonix
as Pentatonix
as The Filharmonic
as The Filharmonic
as The Filharmonic
as The Filharmonic
as The Filharmonic
as The Filharmonic
as Penn Masala
as Penn Masala
as Penn Masala
as Penn Masala
as Penn Masala
as The Cantasticos
as The Cantasticos
as The Cantasticos
as The Singboks
as The Singboks
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Critic Reviews for Pitch Perfect 2
All Critics (200) | Top Critics (43) | Fresh (130) | Rotten (70) | DVD (1)
What felt like winking cheekiness in the first movie can come across now more like clumsy provocation.
The music is better and the comedy is worse.
It is badly written, inexpertly directed, poorly acted, erratically paced, and features music of dubious worth.
Anna Kendrick's Beca, a mash-up maestro, spends the movie looking like she'd rather scale a fish than scale her vocals. (Maybe because Kendrick is nearly 30, and she's still playing a college student?)
Ethnic clichés abound, college comes off as a free sleepaway camp, and the simple wonders of unaccompanied singing are inflated to Las Vegas-style bombast.
Stop me if you think you've heard this one before.
Audience Reviews for Pitch Perfect 2
When the original came out, I wasn't that into Anna Kendrick, but in the last three years, I've really grown to hate-like her for the annoyingly talented, enviably petite, infinity-threat powerhouse she is. Elizabeth Banks proves a competent director in this installment, charting the trajectory of some real-life senioritis challenges for the stagnant Bellas: Beca gophering and ultimately impressing a bigshot music producer played by Key and/or Peele, Fat Amy taking a chance on Bumper (with non-aca backing track??), Chloe finally graduating from super-senior status, and Aubrey channeling her Type-A control freak mojo into a team-building retreat. The best aca-performances of the movie are the riff-off invitational, the training montage, and the campfire reprise of "Cups," but unfortunately, the parts that I expected to bring das haus down (the Das Sound Machine sets, the Bellas' final set, Hailee Steinfeld's audition, and the Jessie J-penned generic pop song "Flashlight")...didn't. Katey Sagal has a surprisingly nice singing voice though!
Super Reviewer
I don't know if I'm just getting old, or if comedies lately are just that bland and generic. This was just okay background material. Some nice songs (and some irritating ones). Rebel Wilson is also highly irritating here. I don't mind her, and she's okay in some movies, but I don't think she really fits here. The story is just a rehash of the first one. All so so. Glad it was a free rental.
Super Reviewer
Pitch Perfect 2 is aca-mazing! Enough said. 4/5
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Pitch Perfect 2 Quotes
| John: | Well, this is what happens when you send girls to college. |
| Gail: | ...is it? |
| Stacie: | I'll do whoever it takes for us to get back to the top. |
| Fat Amy: | You mean whatever it takes? |
| Stacie: | Yeah, I'll do that, too. |
| Chloe: | Here comes by butt confidence. |
| Patricia "Fat Amy": | Here comes my butt confidence. |
| Fat Amy: | You're the most talented person I know, and I've met three of the wiggles. |